Math anxiety: brain cortical network changes in anticipation of doing mathematics

Manousos A. Klados; Niki Pandria; Sifis Micheloyannis; Daniel Margulies; Panagiotis D. Bamidis

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.05.003

Math anxiety: brain cortical network changes in anticipation of doing mathematics

Manousos A. Klados^*, Niki Pandria, Sifis Micheloyannis, Daniel Margulies, Panagiotis D. Bamidis

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Abstract

Following our previous work regarding the involvement of math anxiety (MA) in math-oriented tasks, this study tries to explore the differences in the cerebral networks' topology between self-reported low math-anxious (LMA) and high math-anxious (HMA) individuals, during the anticipation phase prior to a mathematical related experiment. For this reason, multichannel EEG recordings were adopted, while the solution of the inverse problem was applied in a generic head model, in order to obtain the cortical signals. The cortical networks have been computed for each band separately, using the magnitude square coherence metric. The main graph theoretical parameters, showed differences in segregation and integration in almost all EEG bands of the HMAs in comparison to LMAs, indicative of a great influence of the anticipatory anxiety prior to mathematical performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	24-31
Journal	International Journal of Psychophysiology
Volume	122
Early online date	5 May 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.05.003
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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cortical networks
functional connectivity
graph theory
math anxiety

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